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Just to add to my comment about climbing it in thick fog. Fortunately the fog thinned enough on the downhill into Applecross, as otherwise that wouldn't have been fun. I did meet someone in Applecross afterwards who drove over it that day, also in thick fog, and said it was the most terrifying thing...

The other point about that peninsula is the costal road north of Applecross can be harder than the Beallach itself. It follows the coast and includes numerous down and ups at burns/streams. Typically the bridge is on the apex of the U bend so you can't carry speed onto the uphill. It saps the legs ...

Not Yorkshire? Must be Lancashire :wink: There is plenty of Yorkshire which isn't in the Dales, so don't discount it completely. However, there will be very few stations that only have pedestrian access in England (Berney Arms is one, but it isn't near there), and fewer still where that is across f...

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Ok, further west might make it the Bodmin to Wadebridge line along the river Camel. Don't know if the river is tidal along that bit, or where it would be though.

There is the Sleeperzzz hostel in the old railway carriage at Rogart, north of Dornoch, about midway between Inverness and JoG. I've not stayed there myself but did hear good things about it when I was up that way (some years ago now). I did stay at the Bettyhill Hotel, which was comfortable and che...

Ravenglass? Westerer and much much Southerer than that :) JG was very much on the right tracks. The river Dart in south Devon is tidal as far as Totnes, so possibly somewhere along that where the Paignton & Dartmouth railway line runs? Though I can't spot any obvious locality on the OS map. Nor...

2 month LEJOG or JOGLE ... low daily milage and time to visit all the stuff the LEJOG'ers and JOGLE'ers miss .... .... no issues with travel ... simples ... i'd love to join you ... I agree with this, and he could follow the coast, as I did (though I took a lot longer than two months!). But doing L...

Thanks for the many suggestions. My wife has spoken and she is keen on a Cotswolds tour. The main reason is she wants to visit Bath and Oxford and has always wanted to visit the Cotswolds . So we could start in Bath, maybe even spend a weekend, head to bourton-on-the-water then Oxford before going ...

Over 4 days since anyone has had a stab at this. My first thought was also Swyre Head, but as it isn't, I now think it is probably on the east coast, and that we might be on the North York Moors again. If that is correct, I would hazard a guess at it is taken from the lane just south of Brotton, loo...

That pointy bit's just outside Bristol isn't it? There are two in Gloucestershire, just north of Bristol, both on the Cotswold edge. I suspect this one is the tower at North Nibley, which is certainly visible from the railway line, looking much like that. If so, the view may be from the grounds of ...

That is good news.

Does anyone know if the cafe on Yatton station, at the start of the line, has reopened yet? If so, I might well be tempted to take a ride out that way soon.

That's one end of the first surveyed line of the grand mapping of the UK by the forerunner of the OS I think. A rather incongruous location, I think it ranges into Heathrow airport too, doesn't it? Well done! The location is Roy Grove, Hampton, Greater London, and the old cannon does indeed mark on...

A cycle lift up Park Street has been discussed for at least 20 years. The problem, as has been identified, is that there are side road junctions, two of which cannot be accessed easily from anywhere else, so they would be difficult to close off. Park Street isn't actually that steep - even I have cy...

After about 30 years of living in Wales I have a pretty good grasp of how Welsh place names ought to sound, though sometimes they come out slightly English sounding when I actually say them. And sometimes I like to say them with a deliberate Yorkshire accent, as I do with French place names, for co...

Whether the OP returns or not, there will be other people wondering about this as well, so worth continuing. When I cycled the coast of Britain I spent a month cycling in the north-west highlands seeing very few other cyclists or, indeed, other people altogether. But as soon as I got past Thurso, th...